kernels

Meaning of kernels

plural noun
  1. a softer, usually edible part of a nut, seed, or fruit stone contained within its shell.
    the kernel of a walnut
    pine kernels
  2. the central or most important part of something.
    this is the kernel of the argument

Old English cyrnel, diminutive of corn1.

Information about kernels

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of kernels is: kernel.
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Hyphenation of kernels

ker-nels

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • kernels is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

kernels synonyms

Meaning the unit of reproduction of a flowering plant, capable of developing into another such plant:

seed

Meaning a single fruit or seed of a cereal:

grain

Meaning a hollow muscular organ that pumps the blood through the circulatory system by rhythmic contraction and dilation. In vertebrates there may be up to four chambers (as in humans), with two atria and two:

heart

Meaning the part of something that is central to its existence or character:

core

Meaning a hard seed in a cherry, plum, peach, and some other fruits:

stone

Meaning the hard kernel of a nut:

nut

Meaning the chief part of something:

meat

Meaning the intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, especially something abstract, which determines its character:

essence

Meaning the fundamental elements or characteristics of something:

essentials

Meaning the aspect of something regarded as the intrinsic and central constituent of its character:

quintessence

Meaning a central or primary rule or principle on which something is based:

fundamentals

Meaning the essential facts or principles of a subject or skill:

basics

Meaning the crux or central point of a matter:

nub

Meaning the substance or general meaning of a speech or text:

gist

Meaning a particular kind of matter with uniform properties:

substance

Meaning a load, typically a heavy one:

burden

Meaning the essential part of something:

marrow

Meaning the essence of something:

pith

Meaning the decisive or most important point at issue:

crux

Meaning the central and most important part of an object, movement, or group, forming the basis for its activity and growth:

nucleus

Meaning a point or part that is equally distant from all sides, ends, or surfaces of something:

centre

Meaning an initial stage from which something may develop:

germ

Meaning a small lump of gold or other precious metal found ready-formed in the earth:

nugget

Words that rhyme with kernels

Nels, empanels, fontanels, impanels, panels, repanels, subpanels, unpanels, weanels, crenels, spignels, centinels, sentinels, spinels, cracknels, spicknels, simnels, cannels, channels, chunnels, fannels, fennels, flannels, funnels, gennels, ginnels, gunnels, impannels, kennels, mischannels, multichannels, personnels, polytunnels, rechannels, ronnels, runnels, scrannels, stannels, subchannels, trunnels, tunnels, unkennels, unpannels, vennels, Monels, centonels, colonels, coronels, jargonels, lionels

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